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djpare.bsky.social

@djpare.bsky.social
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Associate Professor Dept of Communication, School of Info Studies (ESIS), & Institute for Science, Society & Policy (ISSP), University of Ottawa. Personal Acct (Not uOttawa)

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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
nevermind notions a liberal world order or even realpolitik, the new world order is rooted in Corleonepolitik. Al Capone and John Gotti would be proud...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I have no doubt countless Venezuelans are celebrating Maduro's fall from power; and with good reason. This is all too understandable. The real question though rests in how Venezuelans feel about the Trump administration stating it will now run the country...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I’m confused? How can the US hold another country’s president accountable for breaking US law but NOT the US president for breaking US law?
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A Venezuela run by the Trump administration will be any less corrupt than a Venezuela run by the Madura regime how exactly?
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Une position qui mérite d’être entendue www.reseau-terra.eu/article1493....
reseau-terra.eu
Refuser l’IA à l’université, c’est en abandonner le contrôle au capitalisme - Terra-HNRefuser l’IA à l’université, c’est en abandonner le contrôle au capitalisme
Catégorie : tribune d'opinion, alerte et témoignage.
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It's not so much whether he actually believes this nonsense, but rather, that millions of MAGAs actually do...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Stealing another country's oil tanker, actively sowing instability around the world, practicing extortion and terror, and keen on billionaire-led global domination. Sounds all too much like a Bond movie. Sadly, its not but SPECTRE is at the helm...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Imagine having such an extreme case of rectal cranial inversion as to entertain the idea that X has anything remotely to do with promoting and/or protecting freedom of expression...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Is "I was there for the first strike live and then moved on to my next meeting" the new "I experimented with marijuana a time or two but I didn't inhale"? 🤔
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
L'ACPPU solidaire avec tous les syndicats au Québec qui prendront les rues à Montréal lors de la manifestation "Dans la rue pour le Québec"! CAUT stands in solidarity with all unions in Quebec who will take to the streets in Montreal during the “Dans la rue pour le Québec” protest!
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Academic Hivemind: Pause. Read. Reflect substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Putting things in place to invade Venezuela and subsequently cancel the 2026 mid-term elections...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
sauvonsnosuniversites.ca
sauvonsnosuniversites.ca
Accueil - Rallumer le phare
Restaurer et protéger la mission universitaire au Québec
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Pause. Read. Reflect www.speechaxe.com/say-it-aint-...
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‘Say It Ain’t Divisive!’: How to Stifle the Work of Faculty Unions – The harms of language project
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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Good for the union. This Bill is super draconian and needs to be defeated.
canadianlawyermag.com
University professors’ federation challenges Bill 3 over limiting unions’ freedom of association
The organization said the bill set rules that would hamper democratic debate
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Program cuts, layoffs & campus closures are making headlines across Canada. Proximate cause: last year’s federal government cap on int'l students. Ultimate cause: deliberate & chronic public underfunding for colleges and universities www.caut.ca/bulletin/not...
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Not all calls for public funding are good - CAUT
Program cuts, layoffs and campus closures are making headlines across the country.
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Pause. Read. Reflect ocufa.on.ca/faculty-and-...
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Faculty and Students Excluded from University Funding Review - OCUFA
November 20, 2025 CALL TO INCLUDE THE PERSPECTIVE OF ALL CRITICAL CONSTITUENCIES IN THE FUNDING REVIEW OCUFA understands that the Ontario government has nearly completed its planned review of the...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Are you using Gmail? If so, you may not be aware that you've been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. To OPT OUT you need to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Canadian members of the Academic Hivemind: I've signed. And, I hope you'll consider doing likewise docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
**Edited to add: we have received more than 4000 signatures for our letter but adding any more than 2000 names to this public page seems to be causing our Form to crash! Rest assured that we have all ...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-canad...
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2025 Canada Youth Internet Governance Forum
Get ready for the 2025 Canada Youth Internet Governance Forum, where young minds come together to discuss all things internet-related!
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
If you're in Ottawa the evening of Wednesday November 5th, this event may be of interest www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-encamp...
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The Encampments | Free Screening - Les campements | Projection gratuite
An urgent look at America’s student movement, sparked at Columbia University, as students protested ties to the genocide in Gaza.
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I find myself troubled by the replacing of the East Wing of the White House with the Epstein Ballroom, and I'm not even American!
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I am very pleased to share with you Canada's 2022-2024 IRM Results Report. The public comment period starts tomorrow, Aug 15, and remains open through to the 29th. The report can be found here (the French version is currently being finalized): www.opengovpartnership.org/documents/ca...
opengovpartnership.org
Canada Results Report 2022-2024 - For Public Comment - Open Government Partnership
In 2025, the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) published the Results Report for Canada’s fifth national action plan. The report reviews the level of completion and early open government results fo...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Courtesy of the UK's ITV news from last night. Somehow I don't see N. American media outlets broadcasting anything like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGbh...
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Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction | ITV News
YouTube video by ITV News
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Some thoughts from @profsmithsask.bsky.social and I on the case of Katherine Grzejszczak cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/07...
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Can I share my thoughts about the war in Israel/Gaza, or will it cost me my job? | Centre for Free Expression
The recent firing of Katherine Grzejszczak, a paramedic working for the Regional Municipality of York (north of Toronto), for her Facebook comment condemning Israel’s bombing of Iran, killing children...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
An extremely rare sighting of the Lesser-Spotted Tariff #LoveOrnithology
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
WOW! Sloganeering Poilievre is polling behind in every demographic. “Rap the Crap,” or “Ditch the Bitch,” you might say.
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hey @uottawa.bsky.social tell all of Canada you're tone deaf to to the world around us without telling us you're tone deaf to the world around us... #DoBetter
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I don’t care WHO you voted for. If you can’t admit these last couple months have been an absolute shitshow, you’re part of a cult.
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Every time I hear Canadians who lean to the right on the political spectrum accuse people of being globalists I can't help but wonder how they reconcile that with the darling of the right, Stephen Harper, chairing the globalist International Democratic Union 🤔
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
YorkU is engaging in top-down academic restructuring, and the YorkU Faculty Association (YUFA), alongside their campus colleagues & students, demand it stop. In Feb, the admin announced admission suspension to over a dozen programs. Pls sign & share their petition actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
actionnetwork.org
Stop top-down restructuring at York University
York's Administration seems to feel that it and the Board of Governors have jurisdiction over program suspensions and other academic decisions at York University. Send an email telling them that non-...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (@uwofa1.bsky.social) is pushing back against a partnership between the for-profit pathway college Navitas & Western University. Pls sign and share their petition www.change.org/p/no-navitas.... Find out more here: www.uwofa.ca/resources-fo...
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Sign the Petition
No Navitas at Western 2025: Petition Against the Proposed Partnership
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Carleton University Academic Staff Assoc is currently in negotiations, bargaining for smaller class sizes & TA ratios, wages that keep up with inflation, & health benefits that include better access to mental health services. Pls sign and share their petition today actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...
actionnetwork.org
I support CUASA's negotiating team!
I support CUASA’s Negotiating Team in their fight for fair and equitable working conditions for professors and librarians, continued quality research, and academic excellence at Carleton University. ...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
lemonde.fr
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
PewPew's MapleMaga minions are really grasping at straws if the best they've got is to go after Carney's child. Colour me even more disgusted than usual with what the CPC has become...
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Jeremy Hunsinger @buridan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
So, with Felon-47's administration now openly defying court orders, is it still over-reacting to say the US is being led by an authoritarian regime? Asking for a friend...
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I'm thinking that last night PewPew must have had the happiest and most peaceful sleep he's had in ages. JT gone and the carbon tax axed all in the same day!
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Some food for thought as we move ever closer to a federal election here in Canada: Any candidate you can picture attending a Republican prayer breakfast is probably an exceedingly poor choice
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/03/2025
Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Question for ChatGPT: Looking at the last 100 years of economic data, which federal political party in Canada can be empirically demonstrated to have been the most fiscally responsible. You must pick only one party 🧵
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The massive export pivot Canada needs to wean off 🇺🇸 is legally IMPOSSIBLE without Indigenous consent to new roads, rail, ports, pipelines, etc. There is an extreme lack of policy thinking how to do this. That should be among your top priorities @mark-carney.bsky.social.
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
In the wake of the GOP's red wave a whole lot of people are having to change their portfolio pronouns to was/went
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Spotted in London
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djpare.bsky.social @djpare.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Fasten your seatbelts. #Felon47 melting down...
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